Key holder



L. MOEN. KEY HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED APR= 29, 1921.

Patented'Mar. 21,1922.

61, LOU); [V0611 16 i UNITED STATES LOUIS MOEN, OF ULEN, MINNESOTA.

KEY HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 21, 1922.

Application filed April 29, 1921. Serial No. 465,380.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, LOUIS MonN, a citi- Zen of the United States,residing at Ulen, in the county of Clay, State of Minnesota, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Key Holders; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the invention, such an as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in key holders andparticularly to door key holders.

One object of the invention is to provlde a simple and cheap devicewhich can be easily and quickly applied to the knob splndle of a doorand engaged through the eye of the key to hold the key against turningmovement from without.

Another object is to provide a key holder which is applicable to doorknobs and keys of different sizes, and in instances where the keys areat greater or lesser distances from the knob.

Other objects and advantages will be ap parent from the followingdescription when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention in connection with theknob and key of a door, the knob and key being broken away.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of. the same.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawing, 10 represents aportion of door, 11 the knob, 12, the spindle of the knob, and 13 thekey, which latter has the usual eye 15.

The key holder is preferably formed from a single length of suitablystiff wire and 1n eludes the parallel leg portions 16, con nected at oneend by the bight portion, sald legs being arranged to straddle the knobspindle 12, while the blght portion stands above the said spindle. Theother end of each leg 16 is bent into a loop 18, the loop being extendedoutwardly and disposed in a vertical plane. The wire is then bent aroundeach leg and then directed outwardly 1n the form of a hook 19. i

It will be noted that the loops 18 are dis posed 1n parallel verticalplanes so that they may be easily grasped between the thumb d finger ofthe hand of the operator, to press them together when operating thedevice to engage or disengage the hooks with respect to the eye of thekey.

The wire is preferably flexible so that the legs may be flexed when theloops are pressed inwardly.

In the applied position of the device, it will be noted that the legsare disposed outwardly ,of the eye, and at the opposite sides thereof,while the hooks engage within the eye and with the side portionsthereof. The flexibility of the legs serves to maintain the hooks infirm gripping engagement with the eye portion of the key, thuseffectively preventing the key being turned, in the look, by aninstrument inserted in the keyhole from the outside of the door.

What is claimed is:

1. A key holder formed from a length of stilf and flexible wire andincluding a pair of parallel legs. connected at one end by a bightportion, the other end of each leg being twisted about the body of theleg and having its tip formed into an outwardly directed key eyeengaging hook.

2. A ke stifl and exible wire and including a pair of parallel legsconnected by a curved bight portion, the other ends of the legs beingformed into outwardly extending vertical loops and twisted about thebodies of the legs inwardly of the loops, with the tips of said endsbent into hooks, said hooks being directed away from each other.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in the presence of twowitnesse LOUIS MOEN. I Witnesses:

L. LOFGREN, JOHN Tovs.

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